Not venomous - kills its prey by crushing them
Lived 58-60 million years ago
Weight: more than 1 ton
Length: 14m (about 50 ft), double the biggest snake today
Easily ate up alligators
Fossil found in Colombia
It was the largest predator on the surface of the planet for at least 10 million years.
The titanoboa became this large because it was much warmer on the equator after the dinosaurs died, that's why reptiles in general were larger.
Source
The BBC, 2 Apr 2012
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